Back in September, we presented the first in a pair of shows that were designed as a mini-defense of "classic" 1990s pop-punk - a genre that is justifiably much-maligned, though when you scratch the surface there's actually quite a bit of good music to be found underneath your Blink 182's and Offspring's and Sum 41's. We called the series Pop-Punk Ain't (All) Junk.

Here's the playlist for Part 2 of Pop-Punk Ain't (All) Junk, which was broadcast on Wednesday, December 17, 2014:

Lifetime - "Irony is For Suckers"
Down By Law - "Punk As Fuck"
Face to Face - "You've Done Nothing"
The Vandals - "And Now We Dance"
Big Drill Car - "No Need"
Seaweed - "Squint"
Avail - "Model"
Texas is the Reason - "Back and to the Left"
The Promise Ring - "Red Paint"
Jimmy Eat World - "Your New Aesthetic"
The Weakerthans - "Confessions of a Futon-Revolutionist"
Tilt - "White Homes"
Fastbacks - "Hung On a Bead Peg"
The Muffs - "Big Mouth"
Red Aunts - "Sleeping in the Wet Spot"
Discount - "Clap and Cough"
Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"
Propagandhi - "The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist"
F.Y.P. - "Toss My Cookies"
Scared of Chaka - "Chickenshit"
Young Pioneers - "Food Stamps"
Leatherface - "I Want the Moon"
Hot Water Music - "Trademark"
Fifteen - "Someday"
Pansy Division - "Fem in a Black Leather Jacket"
Fluf - "If I Could Feel Good"

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Here's the playlist for our bonus Christmas-themed mini-set, which was broadcast in the early morning hours of Thursday, December 18, 2014:

The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York"
The Chieftains - "St. Stephen's Day Murders"
Bob Dylan - "Christmas Island"
The Beach Boys - "Child of Winter (Christmas Song) / Here Comes Santa Claus (Medley)"
James Brown - "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto"
Clarence Carter - "Back Door Santa"
Count Sidney and His Dukes - "Soul Christmas"
The Marcels - "Merry Twist-mas"
Kay Brown - "Daddy Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?"
Rufus Thomas - "I'll Be Your Santa Baby"
Rotary Connection - "Silent Night Chant"
Three Aces and a Joker - "Sleigh Bell Rock"
Santo and Johnny - "Twistin' Bells"

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Here at The Way Out, we tend to mark the major holidays with speciality broadcasts that highlight some of the more unique and esoteric seasonal music available. And like with our annual Halloween show, we attempt to never repeat ourselves, always presenting new artists and/or songs. (Check out our Christmas show from last year.)

Here's the playlist for our winter holiday music show, which was broadcast on Saturday, December 13, 2014:

John Denver & The Muppets - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
Stiff Little Fingers - "White Christmas (Live)"
The Yobs - "Rub-A-Dum-Dum"
UK Subs - "Hey Santa"
The Damned - "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
The Sonics - "Don't Believe in Christmas"
Descendents - "Christmas Vacation"
The Vandals - "Oi to the World"
Bad Religion - "What Child is This?"
The Mono Men - "Christmastime is For Sinners"
Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors - "Mr. Grinch"
The Dirtbombs - "My Last Christmas"
The Fleshtones - "Super Rock Santa"
Fucked Up - "Jingle Bells"
They Might Be Giants - "Santa's Beard"
Captain Sensible - "One Christmas Catalogue"
Ride - "Like a Snowflake"
Sloan - "Twelve Days of Xmas"
Superchunk - "Child's Christmas in Wales"
Tom Waits - "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis"

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PS - This was our last regular broadcast of 2014. We'll still be broadcasting live shows sporadically during the winter break, including most Saturdays at 10pm CST. Keep an eye on our Twitter account to learn when exactly we'll be on the air. 

Here's the playlist for Part 8 of Unfinished Business, our ongoing 1980s post-punk series, which was broadcast on Saturday, December 6, 2014:

Devo - "Penetration in the Centerfold"
Minimal Compact - "When I Go"
Sad Lovers & Giants - "Colourless Dream"
The Royal Family and the Poor - "The Dawn Song"
The The - "Heartland"
Shriekback - "Malaria"
Super Heroines - "Tears of a Star"
Bone Orchard - "Girl With a Gun"
Scientists - "Swampland"
Blackouts - "Being Be"
Human Sexual Response - "What Does Sex Mean to Me?"
I'm So Hollow - "I Don't Know"
Maximum Joy - "Man of Tribes"
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - "Baby Doll"

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Here's the playlist for Part 7 of Unfinished Business, our ongoing 1980s post-punk series, which was broadcast on Saturday, November 15, 2014:

Psychic TV - "Godstar (1985 7" Version)"
Alternative TV - "Victory"
Mekons - "Empire of the Senseless"
The Three Johns - "Teenage Nightingales to Wax"
The Ex - "Human Car"
The Skodas - "Everybody Thinks Everybody Else is Dead Bad"
Futurisk - "Army Now"
Music For Pleasure - "The Human Factor"
Thomas Leer - "International (1978 7" Version)"
The Membranes - "Muscles"
Judy Nylon - "The Dice"
Lene Lovich - "New Toy"
B-Movie - "Nowhere Girl"
Polyrock - "Like Papers On a Rack"
Television Personalities - "Godstar"

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Minor Threat, Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, Bad Brains. Those are likely some of the bands you first think of when you consider music from our nation's capitol. Great bands, all. And indeed, Washington, D.C.'s hardcore punk and post-hardcore scene is rich and deep. But as we already play those acts often here on The Way Out - check out our Also On Dischord show from this past April - we thought we'd feature a different area of D.C. underground music this week. We've turned our attention to D.C.'s early/mid-1990s indie-pop scene, in particular acts on three of the city's best record labels: Slumberland, Simple Machines, and TeenBeat. (We took some artistic liberties with the NYC-based Versus, based on their relationship with TeenBeat.) While Slumberland and TeenBeat are no longer run out of D.C. and Simple Machines sadly ceases to exist, we nevertheless thought we'd pay tribute to three of the record labels that helped make D.C. underground rock music so great these past few decades.

Here's the playlist for our Saturday, September 20, 2014, broadcast:

Whorl - "Maybe It's Better"
Unrest - "Can't Sit Still"
Black Tambourine - "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge"
Lilys - "February Fourteenth"
The Ropers - "I Don't Mind"
Teenage Gang Debs - "On Tape"
Tsunami - "Be Like That"
Eggs - "It's Hard to Be an Egg"
Tuscadero - "Nancy Drew"
Blast Off Country Style - "Hey, Hey, I Love You Bitch"
My New Boyfriend - "Thurston Dance"
Versus - "Blade of Grass"
Bastro - "Sketch for Sleepy"
Lorelei - "The Bitter Air"
Velocity Girl - "Tales of Brave Aphrodite"

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Starting with last week's Drive Like Jehu themed show, we've shifted our focus for the Fall semester to 1990s indie/underground rock. After probing the depths of 1980s post-punk over the summer (with our Unfinished Business series of shows, plus a few spin-offs), we thought we'd change gears a bit. And this week's theme takes quite the shift: 1990s pop-punk. Pop-punk's certainly not a genre that typically receives a lot of play on The Way Out, nor is it a genre that garners a whole lot of respect in the broader music culture these days (hey, where were all the 20th anniversary celebrations of Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy earlier this year?). But if you're going to have a discussion about punk or indie rock in the 1990s, you really need to talk about pop-punk. (Jason Heller's excellent "Fear of a Punk Decade" column at The AV Club recently made this point very clear, if only implicitly.)

Pop-punk may be associated with some of the most formulaic and insipid, not to mention apolitical,  music to carry the "punk" label (and for good reason - see the NOFX song on this playlist for just such a critique). But at least for a brief moment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pop-punk was the site of some of the most innovative punk music around; it was refreshing a punk/hardcore scene that had begun to grow stale and cynical, or that had completely lost its way (see: much of hardcore punk's crossover into metal). Among other things, some of the era's most strident proponents of the DIY ethic were closely associated with pop-punk (groups like the 924 Gilman Street collective in Berkeley). And many pop-punk artists were among the most outspoken when it came to carrying on punk rock's social critiques (anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, et al). Moreover, pop-punk really wasn't a distinctly separate genre or scene back in the late 1980s and early/mid-1990s, at least not the way it would become in the late 1990s after the big commercial pop-punk boom. Back in the early 1990s, pop-punk, hardcore/post-hardcore, emo, crust, riot grrrl, ska, grindcore, et al, were all relatively entwined. The bands all shared bills together, and even if you were a straight edge kid, you probably had a Green Day or OpIvy record somewhere in your collection.

Whatever the case, take this show as our mini-defense of pop-punk. Of course, we've titled the show Pop-Punk Ain't (All) Junk, so we're hedging our bets a little. We're not going to lie: a lot of the most popular pop-punk out there is total, utter garbage. But if you look past your Blink 182's and Offspring's, there's some really good music to be found.

Here's the playlist for our Saturday, September 13, 2014, broadcast:

Ramones - "Cretin Hop"
Descendents - "I'm Not a Punk"
Bad Religion - "When?"
Screeching Weasel - "Hey Suburbia (Demo Version)"
Operation Ivy - "Junkie's Runnin' Dry"
Pegboy - "Through My Fingers"
Green Day - "2000 Light Years Away"
The Queers - "Granola-Head"
The Mr. T Experience - "Psycho Girl"
Supernova - "Math"
Crimpshrine - "Summertime"
Monsula - "Pre-Past Tense"
Fuel - "Disengaged"
NOFX - "Please Play This Song on the Radio"
J Church - "Fascist Radio"
Jawbreaker - "Indictment"
Samiam - "Bad Day"
Jawbox - "Reel"
Smoking Popes - "Rubella"
Chisel - "Hip Straights"

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Though certainly not at quite the same level, Drive Like Jehu have grown to possess a Velvet Underground-like legacy in the contemporary underground rock scene. You know, the ol' Brian Eno assertion that they may not have sold many records in their day, but their influence far surpassed their popularity and they inspired legions of musicians who followed in their wake. Indeed, Jehu were only active for 5 years (1990-1995), and even during that tenure the band's members were splitting their time with other bands and projects, most notably guitarist/vocalist John "Speedo" Reis with Rocket From the Crypt. They didn't tour very much. (Andrew was living near Los Angeles for a few of those years, and he honestly can't recall Jehu playing a show there. They certainly must have played a few, but they were hardly playing out often.) They only released two albums and one single. And while we have no idea the sales figures, they were hardly moving mega-units. Nevertheless, their style of propulsive, wiry guitar rock with quiet-loud dynamics, frantic speak-shout vocals, and abstruse lyrics galvanized the prevailing "math rock" sound of the 1990s post-hardcore scene. And it's a style that still gets replicated widely today.

Back in mid-August, Jehu quietly announced that they'd be playing a free reunion show at San Diego's Balboa Park in just a couple week's time, on August 31st. They'd be accompanied by San Diego's civic organist, and play for only about a half-hour. It'd be their first live performance in 19 years, and (at least for now) the band swears it's their only reunion show. (Here's a great HD video of the full set.) To commemorate their reunion, we decided to look back at Drive Like Jehu, some of the members' post-Jehu activities, and the 1990s San Diego indie/punk rock scene from whence they came.

Here's the playlist for our Saturday, September 6, 2014, broadcast:

Drive Like Jehu - "Golden Brown"
Pitchfork - "Thin Ice"
Rocket From the Crypt - "Pigeon Eater"
Hot Snakes - "10th Planet"
Back Off Cupids - "Trivial Pursuit"
Obits - "No Fly List"
No Knife - "Charades"
aMiniature - "Towner On the B-Side"
Chune - "Mel Brown"
Inch - "Chicharrones"
The Peechees - "I Could Have Loved You"
Heroin - "Head Cold"
Antioch Arrow - "Lightning Bolt"
Swing Kids - "El Camino Car Crash"
Trumans Water - "Outpatient Lightspeed"
Drive Like Jehu - "Step On Chameleon"

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Here's the playlist for the 3-hour long Part 6 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, August 14, 2014:

Scritti Politti - "Messthetics"
Essential Logic - "Fanfare in the Garden"
Stockholm Monsters - "Happy Ever After"
The Wake - "Furious Sea"
Colin Newman - "I've Waited Ages"
MASS - "You and I"
In Camera - "Final Achievement"
The Wolfgang Press - "Sweatbox"
Dif Juz - "Hu"
Modern Eon - "Euthenics"
Play Dead - "Shine"
The March Violets - "Crow Baby"
Hula - "Walk on Stalks of Shattered Glass"
Usherhouse - "Permanent Red"
The Swell Maps - "Let's Build a Car"
The Bears - "On Me"
X_X - "No Nonsense"
The Nerves - "TV Adverts"
Art Attacks - "Neutron Bomb"
The Method Actors - "Do the Method"
Tuxedomoon - "No Tears"
Glenn Branca - "Lost Chords"
Pere Ubu - "Heart of Darkness"
Mission of Burma - "Max Ernst"
The Wipers - "Better Off Dead"
Einsturzende Neubauten - "Negativ Nein"
Ausgang - "Weight"
Kas Product - "Never Come Back"
1919 - "Caged"
A.C. Marias - "Drop"
Legendary Pink Dots - "Love Puppets"
Section 25 - "Dirty Disco"
Eric Random - "23 Skidoo"
23 Skidoo - "Porno Base"
A Certain Ratio - "Knife Slits Water"
Sneak Preview - "Desire"
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Do It Clean"
TV21 - "Snakes and Ladders"
U2 - "11 O'Clock Tick Tock"
Indoor Life - "Searching"

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As a spin-off of sorts to our recent Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk) series, we decided to focus this week's show entirely on 1980s post-punk and other underground rock sounds from France. Indeed, we've had plans to do a coldwave themed show for more than a year now but just haven't gotten around to it. Given our current 2-hour summertime slot, though, we chose to expand beyond just the narrower confines of coldwave to explore a wider variety of French post-punk, new wave, synth/electro, and art/experimental rock from the era (late 1970s into the very early 1990s).

Coldwave (or La Vague Froide), for those unfamiliar with the term, is basically a broad categorization for bands/music from the French (and Belgian) post-punk scene. Today, it has come to be associated primarily with minimal synth music - and surely there are some genre purists who will bristle at our using the term to describe anything else. Moreover, "coldwave" has become so synonymous with minimal synth music that it is frequently used to loosely refer to any dark, minimal electronic music from anywhere, past or present (completely obscuring the classification's original temporal and geographic implications). Nevertheless, coldwave can and has been prominently used to refer to any music associated with the French post-punk scene of the 1980s, and it's that more generalized definition that we're using here. To further argue our point, coldwave originated as a guitar-driven form of post-punk, most clearly influenced by the icy, austere punk of Joy Division (and other Factory Records bands produced by Martin Hannett), as well as early goth rock and "darkwave" music from the likes of The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The other major influence on the scene was the electronic futurism of Kraftwerk. But limiting coldwave to just synth music is both reductive and ahistorical. These quibbles aside, the coldwave style - whether synth-based or more traditionally rock/pop oriented - is most recognizable for its distant, impersonal performance style and often unemotional, blasé, and/or naive lyrical themes.

This show is hardly a complete, or even representative, survey of the 1980s French coldwave scene (or genre, movement, whatever you want to call it). Indeed, we've easily got enough additional music to fill another few hours of radio. It may not happen immediately, but stay tuned for a follow-up broadcast sometime in the not-too-distant future.

For now, here's the playlist for Part 1 of Coldwave (1980s French Post-Punk & Underground Rock), which was broadcast on Thursday, August 7, 2014:

Metal Urbain - "Panik"
Kas Product - "So Young But So Cold"
C.O.M.A. (Clinik Organik Musak Anatomik) - "Femme-robot"
Charles De Goal - "Dans Le Labyrinthe"
Taxi Girl - "Aussi Belle Qu'une Balle"
Suicide Romeo - "Suicide Romeo"
Jacno - "Anne Cherchait L'amour"
Artefact - "Sex Computer"
Marquis De Sade - "Cancer and Drugs"
End Of Data - "Dans Votre Monde"
Comix - "Touche Pas Mon Sexe"
Twilight Ritual - "Closed Circuit"
Ferdinand - "Tele, Apres La Meteo"
Philippe Laurent - "Distrosion"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Mais ou Sont Passees Les Gazelles?"
Des Airs - "Lovely Lady of the Roses"
Nini Raviolette - "Suis-Je Normale"
Warum Joe - "Sex Beat"
Mathematiques Modernes - "Disco Rough (Long Version)"
Berurier Noir - "Salut a Toi"
Modern Guy - "Electrique Sylvie (Full Length Version)"
Candidate - "Starway"
Ruth - "Polaroid/Roman/Photo"
Braque - "Jeanette"
Asylum Party - "Pure Joy in My Heart"
Mary Goes Round - "The Promised Land"
Coldreams - "Morning Rain"
Movement - "Perfect Day"

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Here's the playlist for Part 5 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 31, 2014:

Adam and The Ants - "Physical (You're So)"
The Cure - "The Figurehead"
Siouxsie and The Banshees - "Trophy"
The Birthday Party - "Fears of Gun"
Soft Cell - "Entertain Me"
Lives Of Angels - "Pavilion"
Artery - "Into the Garden"
The Names - "Nightshift"
Dislocation Dance - "Roof is Leaking"
Department S - "Going Left Right"
The Chameleons - "Less Than Human"
The Church - "Almost With You"
Gene Loves Jezebel - "Upstairs"
Flesh For Lulu - "Death Shall Come"
The Lords of the New Church - "Like a Virgin"
The Sisters of Mercy - "Alice"
The Damned - "Under the Floor Again"
The Icicle Works - "Love is a Wonderful Colour"
Punishment of Luxury - "Hold Me (Never Mould Me)"
The Gun Club - "Sex Beat"
The Normal - "T.V.O.D."
John Foxx - "Underpass"
Informatics - "What a World"
Starter - "Baby"
Palais Schaumburg - "Wir BauenEine Neue Stadt"
Orange Juice - "Felicity"

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Here's the playlist for Part 4 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 24, 2014:

The Monochrome Set - "Eine Symphonie Des Grauens"
Ultravox! - "Wide Boys"
The Human League - "Empire State Human"
Depeche Mode - "Shame"
Tubeway Army - "You Are In My Vision"
Gary Numan - "Complex"
The Fall - "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul"
The Distributors - "T.V. Me"
Subway Sect - "Ambition"
The Art Objects - "Showing Off to Impress the Girls"
Cravats - "You're Driving Me Mad"
Bauhaus - "Dark Entries"
Tones on Tail - "Performance"
Love and Rockets - "The Game"
Peter Murphy - "Final Solution"
Dali's Car - "The Judgement is the Mirror"
Japan - "Communist China"
The Psychedelic Furs - "Sister Europe"
The Teardrop Explodes - "Treason"
The Sound - "Heyday"
The Moodists - "Gone Dead"
The Soft Boys - "Kingdom of Love"
Television Personalities - "How I Learned to Love the... Bomb"
The Debutantes - "The Man in the Street"
The Wedding Present - "Nobody's Twisting Your Arm"
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Upside Down"

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Here's the playlist for Part 3 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 17, 2014:

Blurt - "My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People"
The Contortions - "I Don't Want to Be Happy"
Liquid Liquid - "Out"
Ike Yard - "Night After Night"
The Flying Lizards - "TV"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "It's You Sort Of"
The Nightingales - "Joking Apart"
The Pop Group - "Thief of Fire"
Biting Tongues - "Compressor"
Abwarts - "Computerstaat"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Nag Nag Nag"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Messages"
Eyeless In Gaza - "Voice From the Tracks"
The Cleaners From Venus - "Urban Jungle"
Fad Gadget - "Collapsing New People"
Delta 5 - "Final Scene"
The Slits - "Newtown"
The Raincoats - "In Love"
Girls At Our Best - "Warm Girls"
Au Pairs - "We're So Cool"
Specimen - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
Alien Sex Fiend - "I Walk the Line"
Sexbeat - "Sexbeat"
Sex Gang Children - "Sebastiane"
Howard Devoto - "Way Out of Shape"
Pete Shelley - "If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)"
Flag of Convenience (Steve Diggle) - "Change"

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Here's the playlist for Part 2 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 10, 2014:

This Heat - "A New Kind of Water"
Diagram Brothers - "Bricks"
World Domination Enterprises - "Asbestos Lead Asbestos"
Urinals - "I'm A Bug"
MX-80 Sound - "Man On the Move"
Half Man Half Biscuit - "The Len Ganley Stance"
John Cooper Clarke - "Evidently Chickentown"
45 Grave - "Evil"
Christian Death - "Electra Descending"
Modern English - "Gathering Dust"
The Durutti Column - "A Silence"
The Lines - "Flood Bank"
Foetus (Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel) - "Clothes Hoist"
Chrome - "Firebomb"
Swans - "Half Life"
Scratch Acid - "Cannibal"
Sonic Youth + Lydia Lunch - "Death Valley '69"
Josef K - "Crazy to Exist"
Blue Orchids - "Bad Education"
XTC - "Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)"
Talking Heads - "Cities"
Happy Mondays - "Tart Tart"
Buzzcocks - "I Believe"
Magazine - "A Song From Under the Floorboards"

Fire Engines - "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"

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Over the past year or so, we've dedicated different series of Way Out broadcasts to the musical genres/movements of 1980s and early 1990s U.K. indie-pop, 1980s U.S. punk and hardcore, and shoegaze and its roots (among other topics). It seemed about time that we devoted an extensive series to one of our other favorite genres, and one that we constantly seemed to be skirting around with those other series: 1980s post-punk. Surely, we play post-punk music often within various other shows, but it's been awhile since we've delved deeply into the genre. And "post-punk" is an incredibly broad and diverse topic - not really a single genre so much as a category that includes a variety of genres and styles, from art punk, no wave, and dance punk to goth rock, industrial, darkwave, and synth-pop and new wave. So, we knew it was going to take quite a bit of time to provide an in-depth (although hardly comprehensive) survey of the genre.

Luckily, we have a 2-hour weekly slot throughout the summer. We decided to dedicate the entire month of July to the series: that's 5 shows, or 10 hours of radio, covering (mostly U.K.) post-punk music from the late 1970s and 1980s. Believe it or not, July is already over and there's still lots of great post-punk music that we didn't have a chance to play - so we'll likely continue this series for a couple more broadcasts in August. As is usual for us, the emphasis has been placed on more obscure artists, or lesser-known songs from more popular artists.

Here's the playlist for Part 1 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 3, 2014:

Wire - "Two People in a Room"

Gang Of Four - "Natural's Not In It"

Public Image Ltd. - "Careering"

Crispy Ambulance - "Deaf"

Joy Division - "New Dawn Fades"

New Order - "Ceremony"

Killing Joke - "Change"

Virgin Prunes - "Pagan Lovesong"

Inca Babies - "The Interior"

Executive Slacks - "The Bus"

Ski Patrol - "Agent Orange"

Rema Rema - "Rema Rema"

Glaxo Babies - "Christine Keeler"

Manicured Noise - "Metronome"

Medium Medium - "Hungry, So Angry"

Theatre of Hate - "Do You Believe in Westworld?"

The Danse Society - "Woman's Own"

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - "Monkey's On Juice"

Opposition - "Moving Targets"

The Stranglers - "Peaches"

Spherical Objects - "The Kill"

Minny Pops - "Dolphin's Spurt"

Spizzenergi - "Soldier Soldier"

Malaria - "Zarah"

Kleenex (LiLiPUT) - "Hedi's Head"

Disturbed - "I Don't Believe"

Family Fodder - "Savoir Faire"

Heaven 17 - "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"

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